Simple Past Tense

-Form -Meaning and Use -Pronunciation

How do we form the simple past tense?

English has two types of verbs in the past: -regular -irregular

Lets read the following list of past tense verbs.. Which are regular and which are irregular?
walked studied taught gave became cried lived did regular regular irregular irregular irregular regular regular irregular

Regular verbs are verbs that end with -ed

Simple form verbs: walk Past tense verbs:

walked

study

studied

cry

cried

live

lived

Rules for adding ed:

Add ed to most verbs Drop the e and add ed to verbs that end with e (smile= smiled). Change the y to i and add ed to verbs that end with a consonant and y (carry= carried, study= studied). Double the consonant and add ed to verbs that end with one vowel and one consonant ( drag= dragged, stop= stopped).

Irregular verbs are verbs that dont end in ed..

Sometimes with irregular past tense verbs you have to change the vowel to make the verb past tense: become give drive forget became gave drove forgot

Other irregular verbs have a different kind of change..you need to memorize these!
teach bring leave hear
taught

brought

left

heard

buy

bought

Why do we use past tense verbs?

TO TELL THAT AN ACTION IS COMPLETED!!!!!! FINISHED!!! OVER!!!

PRONOUNCIATION OF REGULAR VERBS

The ed ending in English has three different sounds:

t: walked, talked, jumped

d: played, loved, answered

id: invited, waited decided.... *With id sounding words, there is another syllable!

How can you practice past tense verbs?

Phonemically (word sorts) Bingo! Modeling Survey says Nancy Fetzer

Direct instruction + muiltiple opportunities to practice = Skill mastery!!!!!